If you watch the deleted scene where he tells Norman about his past, you learn he killed his girl and his brother while drunk in a car crash so he has nothing to go home to which is why he wants to die fighting

My Uncle was a combat engineer in France. He participated somehow in the D-Day landings, but was later killed July 27th 1944 near Normandy at the head of his platoon. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with Valor. RIP Lieutenant Norman Conrad Watkins. He's buried at Colleville-sur-Mer cemetery. Another life, another brave man gone too soon.

I like how Grady starts crying like most humans would do in that situation. Shows the raw side of war and not the macho soldier with no emotions in other movies

Hearing the SS singing in the distance then slowly getting louder still gives me the chills

My favorite thing about this movie is that the atmosphere makes it feel like an post-apocalyptic horror film more than a ww2 film. It really captures how terrible and depressing being there in that time period was.

When he says "stoooooop.What are you doing" with breaking voice.

My grandfather was a loader just like Grady. He never spoke a word about the war to ANYONE (except maybe my grandmother). This movie hits my dad, my uncles, and myself like your wouldn't believe.

My sergeant used to joke on deployment about how he would leave me to die if we got overrun. Joked about it multiple times. We used to joke all the time about how each other were going to die gruesome deaths and we would not miss each other.

Shia is on another level in this movie. How did he not win an Oscar! All of them did amazing, one of the best acting performances

When Norman says I'm Staying with you" and the music starts changing I cant help but shed a tear.

Incredibly acted scene. The emotions were amazing as were the glassy eyes of Shia.

Shia LaBeouf should have won an Oscar JUST for this scene!

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The brotherhood of this movie is incredible.

One thing I disliked about this scene was their lack of obvious preparation. They should have moved all the 30 cal ammunition into the tank, collected any 8mm or 9mm other ammo and some appropriate weapons from the field and cleared a better field of fire. The fact that the main tank cannon also suffered a failure to extract a spent shell during this battle, rendering it useless, was a bit of a stretch too.

In reality, that tank crew would not have lasted even 10 minutes, because that zz unit had several troops carrying the deadly Panzerfaust anti tank weapon. The Panzerfaust was literally the world's first RPG

I’m a black american I would protect my country until my dying breath there is no country greater than the us, sure we have problems but I wouldn’t all anyone from the outside mess with any members of my great nation! til my dying breath

This is unarguably the most underrated war film ever made. The fact that this movie has no consideration for academy awards was mind boggling. Everyone knocked it out of the park with their performances and the story was incredible

The most beautiful part is:

I love stories like this. It reminds me of the 3 Brazilian heroes that refused to surrender when they were outnumbered by a bunch of Nazi soldiers in WW2. They fought to death and even the german soldiers respected them enough to dig graves and bury them with a sign that said "here lies 3 Brazilian heroes".